Beth Revis Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
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All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
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The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
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Failure makes the success worth it.
